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Quote by Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. -

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

Other quotes by Anatole France

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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Miscellaneous
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Anatole France
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

Category:
Greed
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Anatole France
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. – Aristotle

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. – John Keats

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo

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You must lose a fly to catch a trout. – George Herbert

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Gods dice always have a lucky roll. – Sophocles

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. – Sallust

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